CCI Newsgate also eats stories and charts without warning. More fun!!! I never lost a story or a chart on the old system. When stuff is lost, it either has to be done over or not done, resulting in more wasted manhours and potential overtime. Are you getting this, board of directors and shareholders!!!!????? I have worked on four systems. CCI Newsgate is by far the worst!!!!

5:32 - Gannett had been handling all of their retirement processing in-house. It sounds like they have out-sourced it to a third-party administrator. The pension fund was managed through Northern Trust. It's always taken at least 3-4 months for them to work out the bugs with a new TPA. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this. Too many cuts in their HR plus too many retirements = disaster.

The similarity and pattern of the responses -- mainly the constant accusations of some corporate plot -- back a theory I've had for a while.

Most of the anonymous tips, etc., likely come from one person -- Jim Hopkins. Hard telling how often he logs out, posts, and then comes back. My favorite fake persona is the one where the person writes poorly and vaguely about why no one should keep working for Gannett.

Ft. Myers is barely staying afloat. Far mor work to do than people to do it in. The publications are suffering, readers are struggling to stay engaged, news is burnt out and advertising feels defeated.

They'll replace Ms. Block with a perfi expert a year out of college. Her vast experience will be spending her parents' money. But this is who they want to hire: young, cheap and unquestioning of management.

Why does anyone stay with the overhang of pay cuts, furloughs, RIFs or being forced to reapply for your job? Maybe Ms. Banikarim can devise a join Gannett marketing plan.

There's a ton of interesting documentation emerging from a "rainy day" file secretly kept by an early retiree but that's now been passed along. Powerful stuff on discrimination and labor violations. How's this for a blind item, Jim - Enquiring minds want to know what managers have encouraged timesheet violations and made others help hide the evidence. Did the editor at that site even arrogantly work during her own furloughs, stupidly trying to hide it by sending messages through an assistant and her husband's email account? That would leave an trail, you know.

Time sheets violations have been a way of life at the two Gannett newsrooms I have worked in. With increasing demands on limited staff, it is only going to get worse. I know some veteran reporters are putting in upwards of 55 hours because it is the only way they can get the work done that is expected of them. The annual meeting of HR folks with managers is perfunctory.

The poster who says....No Proof,No RIF's, sounds the same as the poster who says.....No one has ever done well after they left Gannett.Such as the ones who start businesses.No name,no company name,no proof equals no new success!Which is bullshit,because I left,started a business,and it is SUCCESSFUL!Come on nay sayers,have at it.But it can be done,and I am not a rocket scientist.

8:05 AM, I've seen it too and it continues. I work for the editor alluded to in 7:46 AM. When a manager brazenly defies the furlough rules in front of those who work for her, the message is pretty clear. "We don't take these rules seriously here, and you better not if you know what's good for you."

Jim is not hiding them.Gannett is just not making them public.We all know they avoid bad publicy.Not every site posts here and not every site has someone that will report layoffs.Now the lid is off,we will probably have more postings.

Gannett is awaiting a payday on violations of pay laws. Those signed time sheets will make no difference when it comes out that managers are ordering employees to falsify them. Particularly when they're following the lead of their cocky editor. How can she openly break labor law and maintain the moral authority to run a Gannett newsroom? Hey, I'm just trying to get a laugh here.

No, 8:19, the vast majority of readers here believe you. It's one odd, obsessive poster here -- and it may very well be the same person as 1:20 AM -- who thinks he/she can stir skepticism with the 'no name/no business' nonsense. Congrats to you! And, yes, as one who did the same, it doesn't amount to rocket science. Just aggressive self-marketing and the inability to say 'no' to any gig or client, no matter what.

Yesterday someone posted about Florida Today suspending the paywall. It seems to be up and working fine. Is this something that will happen soon or just random BS? Any word on other sites' paywall skeds?

11:09 You want to defend Gannett? Gannett is conducting RIF's and is trying to keep the news from coming out. I also was one and posted about it over the past three weeks but was drowned out as there were so many posts about the media dinner, and the buy outs. I think it is some lonely HR rep posting about where is the proof.

There are reorganizations at individual sites that do not have to do with downsizing. Those result in RIFs that are not part of a corporate plan. GPS has ongoing consolidations. RIFs are a state of being for a company on the decline and trying to change. The recent buyouts relieve some pressure, but they do not replace the trend. We will be reorganizing and downsizing incrementally for years to come. Some of these will be orchestrated and some will not. Buyouts really are a sign that you might want to make a change. Those who decided to ride it out took a risk.

Jim says: "Proceed with caution; this is a free-for-all comment zone. I try to correct or clarify incorrect information. But I can't catch everything. Please keep your posts focused on Gannett and media-related subjects. Note that I occasionally review comments in advance, to reject inappropriate ones. And I ignore hostile posters, and recommend you do, too."